OMG!!! I haven't seen this in a few years, but just came in after the pod race........my god the dialogue is horrible! Stited, unnatural, cliched.....delivered with the enthusiasm of a colonoscopy......wow.....
It wasn't as bad as I remember, it's worse.
"All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy."
Wrong! I've just seen it again. I prefer watching this a thousand times than The Force Awakens.
The first deliveries (from the viceroys of the Trade Federation) were somewhat awkward, but then the dialogue got better and better. There were some remarkable, worth remembering lines. Jake Lloyd was ok, he was pretty witty. I don't understand the hatred.
You must be ill intentioned or you are just blinded by hatred for the prequels. Either way, I advise you to think outside the "common herd opinion".
The movie was spectacular. When I saw the Naboo Palace and the gardens I fell in love with epic space operas. And the score when Qui Gon and Obi Wan face Darth Maul in the hangar before Anakin flies away.....unprecedented, exquisite
My ratings are not always like the IMDB average score because I only enjoy intelligent movies.
I suspect that you are a troll or someone who's has appalling taste.
shareMan, enough of this. So everyone who enjoys the prequels is a troll? NO, BODY, YOU'RE THE TROLL. Or worse. cause you wouldn't recognize a good movie if it bit you in the .....
What was so bad about the dialogue? The one in the Original Trilogy was much, much worse
My ratings are not always like the IMDB average score because I only enjoy intelligent movies.
There is nothin intelligent or even emotional about the films you like
Force awakens had real characters with a real story
Th prequels had none and was just kiddy explosions
TFA was bland and the characters were downright awful
shareForce awakens had a story with real characters and depth
Describe the phantom menace characters without referencing
Their conflict
Their professions
Their looks
Their roles
They are empty as *beep* as was your mother
Force awakens is in 250 while phantom menace is forgotten trash along with Lucas other *beep*
Describe the phantom menace characters without referencing
Their conflict
Their professions
Their looks
Their roles
Lol real characters and a real story. That’s funny.
In all seriousness though the PT is at least competently made, TFA is one of the worst movies I’ve ever seen
Right about the halfway point of TFA, it hit me I was watching high-budget fanfiction.
shareMy reaction exactly.
shareOh I knew I was watching a high-budget fanfiction as soon as Princess Leia, I mean Poe gave the Death Star Plans, I mean map to Luke Skywalker to R2-D2, I mean BB8 who was then lost on Tatooine, I mean Jakku.
shareThere is nothing intelligent about the movies you like
Force awakens is remembered...while the pt is juvenile trash
TPM does have the best Light Saber dual of the entire saga. It being the debut of Duel of Fates is just the icing on the cake.
shareCheesy, horrible, unwieldly dialogue that gives the actors trouble has been a Star Wars tradition, since Leia first told Tarkin she thought she recognized his foul stench!
It wouldn't be a Star Wars movie without it.
“Seventy-seven courses and a regicide, never a wedding like it!
Alec Guinness and Harrison Ford infamously clashed with George Lucas over what they looked at as banal, hokey dialogue. Ford once said to Lucas "You can write this shit, but you can't say it!" And Guinness supposedly wanted to be killed off in A New Hope in part so that he wouldn't have to recite anymore of that dialogue that he didn't care much about.
shareWhy were the Star Wars Episodes I-III scripts allowed to be consistently terrible?
https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/5l4ipa/why_were_the_star_wars_episodes_iiii_scripts/
" allowed "
The problem is exactly in this word : there was NO ONE who could tell Lucas "This sucks: change it".
Maybe because the dialogue and acting is intentionally bad to harken back to cheesy Flash Gordon serials, I swear nerds take Star Wars too damn seriously that they have no idea or forgot what Star Wars was originally based on. When viewing the prequels this way it actually makes them more enjoyable if you can get what Lucas was going for. The prequels are closer to what his original idea was for Star Wars.
shareLucas original idea for star wars is a boring mess that gary kurz's made into a masterpiece
shareI am calling bs on your idea that it was intentionally poor, it makes no sense. What's the point of enjoying that miss the point or having to resort to seeing what is was supposed to be. Most people enjoy that do not require you having to resort to trying to see what the intended film was supposed to be and not what it was.
shareHorrible dialog. Horrible movie. Horrible prequels.
Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.
The dialog feels stiff and stilted in the same way the dialog of a 40’s or 50’s movie is. Lucas was highly inspired by those sort of sci-fi action serials and I think Lucas, whether intentionally or subconsciously, captured that style of writing.
shareThe dialogue (and vernacular) is hokey and parochial in so many ways. For starters, every other sentence Obi-Wan and Anakin say to each other...they finish with "my young apprentice", or "master". Ok, we get it....you two have a master/apprentice relationship. We don't need to be reminded every 4 minutes.
And I won't even get into the goofy, juvenile terms...like "The Force"..."blasters"....."The Death Star", etc.
I think Lucas writes ok for kids...and maybe the problem is....we original fans have grown too far away from our kid selves, and have grown up into crotchety old people, LOL. In the end...Star Wars kinda IS mostly for kids. We're just judging it now through an adult lens.
Adults not allowed to discriminate between well made movies and poorly made movies. Always "you hating," or "agenda!" or "childhood..." or "insert ad hominem."
Prequels looked good if you don't mind the CGI. But they were written very poorly. Script and plot. The single moment of quality in them at all, IMO, is the perfect Maul fight. Everything about it was excellent. It make PM the only preq worth watching at all. Even with the embarrassing dialogue.
Agreed about the Maul fight,,,,really awesome. It would have been cool had he lived...and became this menacing paid assassin who is constantly stalking and tracking the Jedi, almost like a terminator....and shows up occasionally from film to film, and they escape him with near misses.
shareYES! A running vendetta between him and Obi. The character came out of nowhere just to get killed. The best thing in all the preqs and its virtual non-sequitur. Jeez the writing is incompetent.
shareMaybe it's because people in the Star Wars galaxy speak differently than we, who knows.
shareBad dialogue is George Lucas's Trademark
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